Hello Time Travelers!
My name is Signor Volpe and I will be your new TTI director. I specialize in the Medieval World and will be sending you on all future missions. I'm excited to have this great opportunity to work with you.
I wanted to let you know of a few changes coming down the road for TTI blogs, just in case you have some time this summer and wanted to get a head start.
1-in your blog design/page elements you CAN NOT have any gadgets placed above your blog posts. This includes any overly large pictures you may have placed behind your header. Readers should not have to scroll down to find the start of your most recent post, it should be right at the top waiting to be read. This will help your readers find the most important part of your blogs: your travel writings!
2-the very first gadget on either the left or right side of your blogs posts should be the "About Me" gadget. This gadget should include your picture and 1-2 sentences about who you are. If your "About Me" gadget only says "View My Complete Profile" you need to edit this gadget. If your "About Me" gadget is under several other gadgets, please drag it to the top.
3-if you are running a poll, put the poll gadget directly beneath your "About Me" gadget. Remember, when your poll closes you might want to remove it from your blog (a tidy blog is a happy blog!)
4-as always, games and random picture/joke generators are not allowed. Remove these. Pets are okay, but don't go overboard. Time Traveling with pets can be very difficult, limit yourself to no more than 2 pets.
5-there are a few easy fixes for those of you with difficult to read blogs. If you have a photo as your background and you have to highlight your text in order for it to be readable, you should use the template designer to pick a different overall layout so that your posts always have a specific colored layout.
6-General site layouts must be 2-columns. 3-column layouts make your blog posts long and narrow and it looks a bit silly to squeeze a post in between two short columns of random items.
7-Finally, if you are going to change time traveler identity and/or create a new blog for the upcoming year's travels, please do so over the summer. This will ensure you are ready when the first mission arrives in the fall. (BE SURE TO SEND ME YOUR NEW BLOG ADDRESS AND/OR E-MAIL).
See you soon!
Signor Volpe
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